Noel Coward hails a "b,.,illiant and o,.,i!5inal book" "I was tremendously interested in NOVEL ON YELLOW PA- PER," writes Mr. Coward. "Stevie Sm ith has a wise, witty and entrancing mind. . . . Her story held me fast from begin- . t d " nlng 0 en .... * * * Don't miss this novel about an unpredictable modern young woman-praised as "a young Proust out of Anita Loos"- damned as "a flippant stream f . 'I o conscIousness.... NOVEL ON YELLOW PAPER by Stevie Smith $2 and published by Morrow THE RICH ARE NOT AS WE ARE In the days when Scott Fitz- gerald looked like a jonquil he wrote, "The rich are not as we " are. "N 0," Heming\vay said to him, "they have more money." Six bits of yours \vill ,make you feel rich after you've read John Peale Bishop's essay on the Younger Generation of \vriters, "The l\1issing All" in the January Virginia Quarter- ly Review now on sale at B ren- tano's. THß VIRGINIA QyARTERLY REVIEW UNIVERSITY VIRGINIA 75c a copy $3.00 the Year sian Revolution, etc. It is only fair' to say that the treatInen t is not pure- ly picturesque. After setting his scene, Guedalla usually ranges back and forth in an atteInpt to establish background and forge the links binding one event to another. But in the end we are left with the sense that we have been watching with en jOYInent a colorful iInpressionist drama, whose chief actors are presidents and cabinets, kings and queens (the avid Guedalla siInply can- not get enough of Victoria, for exaIn- pIe). Everything is Inade clear, nothing understandable. Here at last is the Wal- ter LippInann of historical writing. Guedalla would like to be called ob- jective. But the trouble with objective history is that you' are never quite sure whether the historian is gifted with OIYInpian detachInent or Inerely ham- strung by a cOInplete deficiency of ideas. Not that he does not ad vance a few leading theorelns. Still, at best they seeln generalizations, often witty and elegan t, which clarify for the Inolnent, only to fade like a glowing coal. "The true history of the United States is the his- tory of transportation" is one of them. "The unpleasant rhythm of Russian history seelned to impose a fata] alter- nation of defeat and revolution" is an- other. It is not that these sUInInaries are untrue. It is that their (partial) truth can becolne valuable only if one investigates what lies behind theln. Guedalla is under the iInpression that such statements say sOlnething, whereas they are in reality but faint hints of the cOInplex statement that relnains to be made. For his device Guedalla borrows Talleyrand's foxy sentence, "J r nc blâme ni n' approuve; je raconte." But it is not all undiluted recounting. Could undiluted recounting have led hiIn to the conclusion that "there was no com- pelling reason in ecopomics or .sociol- ogy for the War between the States" r Could it have led him to his interpre- tation of the Russian Revolution, which he treats with a kind of alniable scorn, as if it were a cOlnic-opera overturn? Could it have led him to a disInis- sal of a still seriously studied systeln of thought as "a TVeltanschauung which bore a distressing reseInblance to a protracted bilious attack," which, if true, offers an interesting exaInple of a bilious attack sufficiently protracted to convulse a nation of 160,000,000 people and initiate a new experÎ1nent in the ordering of hUInan life? (It should be noted that Guedalla's objectivity is sufficiently flexible to allow hiln to pour a gentle stream of satire on rebels of 65 ! FOR FEBRUARY FEATURES BY: CRO'J st R'J SS tl l\ ll\ t 1R\Ct. 'è 0' \-\ \ l 1 0 \'\ ý-t J !'\ 't::.S \-\!'\ R D'J'/ \ C ctDR\C !,\CO'M ?t GG '< 'è tRSO'M 0\-\\'\ !,\\'\D \,\OlDS j t. Rt:'{ \-\0 R!'\ C 'J'/!'\ lÝ- tR SI !'\ \'\ l't::.'< t 0 !'\ IS \..t.O ,,\..\Ct.- \Jt. R '< t 't::.1 ll'\ !'\ 1\-\\ t 'J 'è t!'\ I R \ C 't::. D !'\ \J 't::. \'\ ? 0 R I ",RC\!'\ COll\\'\Gt G'J'/\CÝ- :íR\C\!'\ 'JR'< StD rr" "-NOOD R 'J 1\-\ \'\ 't::. 'è t SI ý-!'\ I\-\!'\ R \ C \..t.t. R '{ -1 c !'\ l'è t R OlD 'è t R G \S!'\!'\C G 'èR!,\Dlt'< G !'\ I R \ C\ !'\ 'J'/ 'Ç;\ \'\ 'è t R ? G. t.R " DRAWINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY: C!,\RSO'M O \ r\ G !'\ l 'è RI'\ \J}>-. l 't::. \,\1 t l t\J'< !'\ Ü R tDO 'J t R 'è!'\ C \-\ '-N \ ll\ !'\ :O 'è\ 'MSO 'M J tR 0 't::. !'\ R S \-\ R't::. G \ \,\!'\ lD GOLD 'è t R G . A}>-.'JR\C't::. . A\!'\'M O \'1\ , D" \'1\ ,, D R t. O ' R t. \ \... \.. '{ GR" '<- ? !'\ \J't::.llt }>-. l !,\'M C\-\R\SI\\'\!'\ STAGE The Magazine of After-Dark Entertainment 50 E. 42nd ST. NEW YORK